Armando Lara was born in la Lima, in the north coast of Honduras in 1959. He demonstrated his artistic vocations since he was very young. Since he was a student in school, he enjoyed drawing very much and demonstrated his inclination to surrealism.

Even though he was prone to this artistic style, he did not want to follow the same psychological tendency of the pure form of surrealism and instead he followed a social path. To do this, he inspires himself in a concrete fact in life, generally related with injustice and converts this situation into fantastic images in order to give the painting the right atmosphere.

One of his most important paintings, where his style can be appreciated related with Honduras history is “Ecos”, made in 1989. The painting has warm tones and representing a desert with two craters in the centre and a fossil human figure in the spotlight. Also in the painting several seashells can be seen in the background.

In works of later years, Lara keeps his plastic speech full of content, but with a different texture that characterizes the picture described above. Now he works with cool colors in order to highlight aspects of a reality which are markedly inhumane. That’s what I see in his paintings “Rincon de luz” (1991) and “Calles de gas,” which describes two opposing environments of what is and should be the man. To a point that this ends up as a simple bagged hand, which means that it is powerless to perform is best ability: to create. Using this theme and style, essentially surrealist profile, Lara has made numerous personal and collective exhibitions with great applause from the audience. His works are in several countries in Latin America and the United States.